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	Souls of my love are still in exile and lonely: 
My little brother Africa in his fantasy 
Now running beyond his favourite playground, 
Where we are gleeful with warmth, hug unexceptionally and of course, 
Kiss for our sweetest life 
 
My beautiful sister before,  
Never returned from her far-fetched riverside, 
Since the enchantment of her most loved is droned 
 
My aged mother is writhing around in loneliness,  
Misting and missing her children  
That had distasted the wine of her breast they all fed 
And my loving father still in a battle I just wish 
Could end now 
 
Souls of my love, scatter over swallow grounds:  
Over seas and over lands of Obodo Oyinbo, as good feeding-seeds 
 
I have told your bother, and you too, tell yours, sister  
That I am pleased to receive you back from 
That pitiful place you dream and please, 
Quiet and far away from me, Nigeria 
Sequestered of course, that farfetched trend I can fathom 
 
I know my pains and poverty took you away 
But come home to strengthen the battled man, 
Come to cheer up the dying woman, 
Come home to mend and rebuild with thatches 
Please come home, your love is missing you from Nigeria, Africa.
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Adelusi Oluwafemi Temidayo-Don
  
 
I am not a poet 
I only seem like a pen 
I am not a crafty writer 
I only write my whrits 
Script my gifted mouth; 
Book my heart in my hands 
I just want to spit it out once and for all 
You call it an expression or anger 
All I just want is to define the norms 
To exploit means to do the extra ordinary things 
Exceeding normal exist 
Setting new standards on a consistency and continuous basis; 
And be free at last from oppression, suppression, poverty, war, inferiority complex and other things you know 
As for me 
All l want to see is CHANGE and FREEDOM everywhere. 
 
May God help me  
 
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